Stock waterer



0. O. ANDERSON Magch 10, 1925.

STOCK- WATERER Filed June 16, 1924 Patented Mar. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES OSCAR O. ANDERSON, OF SIOUX RAPIDS, IOWA.

STOCK WATERER.

Application filed June 16, 1924. Serial No. 720,329.

To all 'w/wm it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, OSCAR O. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at bioux Rapids, in the county of Buena Vista and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Stock Waterer, of which the following is a specification.

- This invention relates to astock waterer and it is designed more especially as an improvement upon the structure disclosed in my co-pending application, Serial No. 642,057.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide simple and eilicient means whereby the pipe leading from the water supply tank to the watering trough can be kept warm and thus prevent freezlng during cold weather.

Another object is to provide a' simple form of heating apparatus which can beeasily installed, will not readily get out of order, and requires the minimum space.

iVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying 'drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

in said drawings Figure 1 is a vertical section through a feed trough and a portion of the supply tank having the present improvements combined therewith.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on line 22, Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a housing adapted to hold a heating lamp 2. This housing has an upwardly extending portion 3, the front wall l of which has a depression 5 for the reception of a flange 6 extending backwardly from a watering trough 7. This watering trough is adapted to close the top of the housing 1 and has a forwardly extending flange 8 which rests on the front wall of the housing. The rear wall of housing 1 is provided near its upper end with a threaded opening 9 in which is seated the threaded forward endof a tubular housing 10. This tubular housing is extended through the wall of a supply trough 11- and p I is held to the wall by means of a nut 12in threaded engagement with the housing 10. An opening 18 is provided in that end of housing 10 within tank 11 and receives the threaded end of the feed pipe let. This feed pipe is extended longitudinally of the housing 1 and thence through the front wall 4 of said portionas shown clearly in Fig. 1. A valve casing 15 engages this projecting end of the pipe 14. and contains a ball valve 16which normally closes the outlet of the casing. A lever 17 is fulcrumed in the casing at 18 and carries a float 19 normally supported within the trough 7. Whenthis float moves downwardly past a predetermined level, the inner end of lever 17 will force upwardly against ball 16 and unseat it. iVhen the float is lifted by water in the trough 7, however, the ball 16 can gravitate to its seat.

Mounted on the pipe 14: and within the housing 10 is a flue member 20 which straddies and rests on the pipe 1 1 and has its bottom wall 21 extended to the wall of housing 10 so as thus to forma partition. The arcuate wall of the flue member. 20 fits against the housing 10. This flue member is open at both ends. Oneof its ends is spaced from the closed end wall of the housing 10 while the other end opens through the front wall 4 of the upwardly extended portion 3.

An air supply box 22 can be secured with in the housing 1, this box being provided with an air inlet 23 and an air outlet 2 1, the inlet being in communication with the outer atmosphere.

In using the device water will of course flow through pipe 14 to trough 7 until float 19 is elevated a suflicient distance to allow the valve 16 to rest upon its seat. During the Winter months it has been a difficult matter to prevent the feed pipe from freezing. The present invention is designed to overcome thisobjection. When the lamp 7 is lighted, the air admitted thereto through openings 23 and 24: will be heated and flow is thus heatedwill come against the-- bottom of the trough '7 and :prevent water from freezing therein.

Obviously by utilizing -.-the arrangement described the pipe 14: as Well as thef'trough 7 will not freeze and the trough oan th'us be used in all kinds of Weather.

The plate indicated at constitutes nothing more than a shield extending over the middle po'r'tibmdf the trough 'where the lever "17-is locatedf thus td prevent ;t1ie--'live stock from d'isturbing the 1everand fioat.

What is c'la-imed is 1. The combination W it-h a;'supp1y -tank, a wateringtrough andaheater housing having a eIOSdeXtensiOn communicating therewith, of feed pipe op'ening into the: tank fordelivering wa ter to the trough, a'-tuhular housing through*Which theiieed pipe extends,'a}-return' flue straddling the= teed pipe and 'mo'unted Ewithin aigpertion ofi the housing, said return flue "opening intovonee-end of the -feed pipe housing a and at its '1 other endfopening above the-trough,saidfieed pipe housing ha'vii'ig one {end in communication with the extension of the heater -housing.

2. 5 The combination with a supply tank, a Watering trough, and -a"heater housing under (the trough pIOVldd'WK/Ylth i an extension communicating with said "l1ousing,'--*o1 a tubular housing'eoinmunieat ingiat one end With the extension andprojecting intdtthe tank, a feed pipe extending :through ithe tubular hou sing'aiid' jopening ht one endinto thetank and at its other end above'the trough, "and-a return flue" extending-longitudinally of the tubular-' housi1'ig tor conduct ing hot" gases from one and ot the-"tubular housing and through --the extension to -a point above the' trough.

3. The combination ithasupply tank, a Wateringtrou'gh, and a heater housing having a closed extension opening into said housing, of a tubular housing projecting into thetan'kand communicating With the ex tension, ,a feed pipe extending longitudinally through the tubular housing and opening ateoneaend:intovthe tank and at its other end into the trough, and means Within the {tubular housing ior setting up a .hack and 'forthvciroulationsalong the teecl. -pipe of hot ggasesyz fiowing irom wthe gheater :housing into the tuloular :housing.

4. The combination w ith a :supply tank, A a -Waterin'g I1O1lgl1, "and ea "heater .housing having a" closed extension"openingointo said -hotuiing, of: a 1 tubular zrhousing, projecting 'into the tank :and communicating with: the ex-tensio-n, a :feed pipeextending -].ongitudiynahy through the 'tubular:housing and. opening at one end into the tank and at its other :1 end into, thew-trough, and means within the tubular housing toi se ttinjg up abackiand i forth circulation along the feedpipeof hot 1 gases fiowing from the :heater housing into the tubular housing, said -means including a i return flue insert-able into the tubular housing Land adapted ;to hear upon, and --straddle 'thel'feed pipe -said return fiuebeing-open atone' end in oi'ie:end; portion of the tubu- 'lar housing and-atitsother end above the trough.

ini testimonygthat lclaim-the-foregoing as j my own, l have :hereto 5 aflixed by signature in thexpresen'ce oi two-Witnesses.

OSCAR o. ANDERSON.-

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